Do South Africans still Yahoo!? Indeed they do. According to Apurimac Media, the sales representative for Yahoo! in sub-Saharan Africa, the site receives 1.5 million monthly visitors from South Africa generating 256 million page views.
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LinkedIn in Africa – the numbers
LinkedIn, the fast growing business-oriented social networking site, has seen a noticeable lift-off in African markets as business professionals adapt to social media.
Will HTC slay the market-share monster?
Almost every new major smartphone announcement comes with an element of groundbreaking change. Every groundbreaking change is heralded as the next big thing, until the next next-big-thing arrives the following day. Or until the next big thing turns out to the last big novelty.
Mobile device brands that are gaining in Africa
By targeting specific market segments, rival phone makers are taking on the seemingly unstoppable Samsung and Apple.
HP: “We’ve got our swagger back”
Celebrity CEO Meg Whitman grabbed the headlines at last week’s HP Global Partner Summit, but the key moment was presided over by Jim Zafarana, head of workstations. We ask him about the company’s rebirth.
BlackBerry and Nokia reborn
At a conference in Amsterdam and a launch in South Africa last week, BlackBerry and Nokia respectively revealed that they would remain a formidable force in Africa.
News censorship never ends well for governments, says CNN exec
Tony Maddox, the executive vice president and MD of CNN International, is responsible for CNN’s international news and information portfolio. Maddox, who is based at CNN’s Atlanta headquarters, is responsible for five CNN services in English; CNN en Español; CNN-IBN, CNN Turk and CNN Chile.
Framing the alcohol advertising regulation debate
The advertising and media industries are bracing for stricter government regulation of alcohol advertising. It is an incredibly complex and global issue, so here is a framework to help contextualise what is actually going on.
Turner Broadcasting System sees growth in African pay-TV market
Turner Broadcasting System (TBS), a Time Warner Company, delivers a number of news and entertainment pay television brands to African audiences through partnerships with MultiChoice (DStv) and On Digital Media’s (ODM) TopTV. Its channels are also available on some smaller platforms across Africa.
Modise Makhene on how the Great Recession changed ad land
Modise Makhene, CEO of JWT South Africa, says the singing by protesters in front of the JWT Cape Town office at 30 Keerom Street makes a familiar sound-track, what with its offices situated right across from the Western Cape High Court. The chanting and singing of the well-behaved crowd drifting into the offices on the Velocity building’s third floor is a reminder that ad land can’t afford to cocoon itself from the broader society – here ordinary South Africans are literally reminding them of their daily struggles on an agency’s doorstep.